J A Church
Biographic Data
| ID | 5912202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J A Church |
| GIVEN NAMES | J A |
| FAMILY NAME | Church |
| SIGNATURE | CHURCH J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vassar College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5588-3782 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Imagination and the Experience of Moral Objectivity
Possibilities of Perception
The epistemology and the phenomenology of perception are closely related insofar as both depend on experiences of self-evident objectivity-experiences in which the objectivity of a state of affairs is evident from within our experience of that state of affairs. Jennifer Church offers a distinctive account of perception, showing how imagining alternative perspectives and alternative possibilities plays a key role in creating and validating experie…
Seeing Reasons
I should like to say ‘I experience the because’ (Wittgenstein, P.I.§177) We frequently speak of seeing the reason for an event or a state of affairs: “I see why the chair tipped over”, “You see why I’m angry”, “Now she sees why she should stay.” Does such talk of seeing simply register our success at acquiring knowledge of reasons, or does it refer to a distinctively perceptual, or perceptual-like way of knowing reasons? This paper defends an acc…
The Hidden Image
The attribution of unconscious imagining can seem objectionable for a variety of reasons: because unconscious images suggest inner representations where there are only conditioned habits, because images by their very nature must be conscious, or because the relevant images should be viewed as societal rather than individual. This paper responds to these objections by attending to the details of some specific cases, and it uses these cases as the …
Consciousness in Action
Rethinking dichotomies
The Hidden Image
The attribution of unconscious imagining can seem objectionable for a variety of reasons: because unconscious images suggest inner representations where there are only conditioned habits, because images by their very nature must be conscious, or because the relevant images should be viewed as societal rather than individual. This paper responds to these objections by attending to the details of some specific cases, and it uses these cases as the …
Rethinking dichotomies
Consciousness in Action
The Hidden Image
The attribution of unconscious imagining can seem objectionable for a variety of reasons: because unconscious images suggest inner representations where there are only conditioned habits, because images by their very nature must be conscious, or because the relevant images should be viewed as societal rather than individual. This paper responds to these objections by attending to the details of some specific cases, and it uses these cases as the …
Seeing Reasons
I should like to say ‘I experience the because’ (Wittgenstein, P.I.§177) We frequently speak of seeing the reason for an event or a state of affairs: “I see why the chair tipped over”, “You see why I’m angry”, “Now she sees why she should stay.” Does such talk of seeing simply register our success at acquiring knowledge of reasons, or does it refer to a distinctively perceptual, or perceptual-like way of knowing reasons? This paper defends an acc…
Possibilities of Perception
The epistemology and the phenomenology of perception are closely related insofar as both depend on experiences of self-evident objectivity-experiences in which the objectivity of a state of affairs is evident from within our experience of that state of affairs. Jennifer Church offers a distinctive account of perception, showing how imagining alternative perspectives and alternative possibilities plays a key role in creating and validating experie…
Imagination and the Experience of Moral Objectivity
Epistemology (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (2 works)